People and Planet 2025

Imagine the world 20 years into the future… What will life on planet Earth look like? What impacts will climate change have had on everyday life by that time? Will we still be travelling by plane? Will diseases like malaria be rife? What new methods will we use to combat them?

Two actors step into the future and present a couple of vignettes imagining how various technologies might manifest themselves in our lives.

In-depth discussion in small groups follows, where you get to have your say on what you’ve seen. In our future world inequalities and poverty are likely to remain. What role will technology play in our future lives? How might technology mediate our relationships with the rest of the world? And what impact will global justice and environmental movements have had?

The evening will draw to a close with a chance to ask the specialists about these future technologies as they currently stand in a facilitated question-and-answer session. Talk technology and global issues before we all start counting our carbon credits.

Your comments on these technologies will be passed back to the sciencehorizons team and onto policy-makers.

This event is run in partnership with sciencehorizons.

Speakers

Catherine Bottrill, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford
Michael Buick, Climate Care, Oxford
Sarah Gilbert, vaccine designer and molecular virologist, University of Oxford.

Facilitator:
Tom Ziessen